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Court rules, regulator actions and decisions on AI in Australian legal practice, with the source and the related court, rule and tool pages.
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ASIC banking sector priorities 2026–27 include AI review
Supervisory letter to banks; AI governance review expected to start Q2 2026-27.
OAIC resources on AI and automated-decision transparency (APP 1 from 10 Dec 2026)
APP entities must disclose computer-program decisions significantly affecting individuals in privacy policies from 10 Dec 2026; APP 1 guidelines v2.0 dated 30 Sep 2026.
Federal Court rejects AI-hallucination claim in defamation case; lawyer referral reported
Australasian Lawyer social post; primary judgment not located.
Queensland workplace court and commission inundated with AI-assisted litigants
AFR reports QIRC concerns about fake cases from self-represented AI users (page paywalled/moved; snippet only).
Australian Lawyers Alliance submission to Joint Select Committee on AI
Covers AI use in legal practice and protections against AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes.
PM&C consultation on AI laws "in Australia's interests"
Consultation follows the PM's 15 July 2026 announcement that the government will introduce AI laws.
Children's Court of NSW Practice Note 21 on Gen AI commences
Issued 4 Sep 2026; adopts Supreme Court SC Gen 23 for all Children's Court proceedings.
Queensland Supreme Court rejects ChatGPT answer as evidence of ordinary meaning
Inspired Medical Pty Ltd v S Mohindra Pty Ltd [2026] QSC 78: party relied on ChatGPT for meaning of "medical centre" in a lease.
NSW District Court Generative AI practice note (criminal) listed
District Court practice-notes page updated 4 Sep 2026 listing General Practice Note 2 – Generative AI.
SA Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner fact sheet on complainants using AI
Fact sheet on complaints prepared with Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT etc.
Lee J orders parties to confer with expert on AI for evidence preparation
In a McDonald's Fair Work dispute (Vic registry), s 37P(2) orders require parties by 6 Nov 2026 to investigate AI for collating data, chronologies and document management.
Government releases draft privacy reform legislation citing AI risks
Attorney-General releases consultation paper and draft legislation to modernise the Privacy Act, citing AI risks.
ASIC and APRA warn frontier AI awareness must turn to action
Joint release 26-201MR following ASIC's 8 May 2026 cyber-resilience call.
National Cabinet endorses nationally consistent mandatory AI standards work
Reported endorsement on 26 Aug 2026 of nationally consistent mandatory standards.
ART publishes Generative AI Practice Direction
President Kyrou J signed the ART practice direction on Gen AI on 20 Aug 2026; published 24 Aug.
Fair Work Commission finalises Gen AI guidance note (effective 20 Oct 2026)
Final guidance note after 28 submissions on a March 2026 draft: anyone using Gen AI for a Commission document must disclose and verify citations from 20 Oct 2026.
Lee J speech: "All the right notes – AI and the future of the common law"
Federal Court judge's speech on AI and the common law.
Lawyers Weekly: AI misuse now a fixture of disciplinary investigations
Feature on AI misuse in courts and disciplinary matters a year after the first Australian sanction.
Fair Work unfair dismissal claim dismissed over AI-fabricated case law
Claim dismissed after AI-generated submissions cited non-existent and irrelevant cases.
FCFCOA judge tests ChatGPT, signals "sterner response" to AI submissions
Judge Humphreys disclosed ChatGPT admitted fabricating details of his decision; dismissed a student-visa review application with AI-generated submissions.
Tax Practitioners Board issues TPB(GS) 55/2026 on AI and the Code
Guidance on tax practitioners' TASA Code obligations when using AI.
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Legal Innovators New York Sponsors, Spellbook Webinar +
Welcome to this week’s Wrap, which starts with the unveiling of our awesome sponsors for the landmark Legal Innovators New York conference in Midtown, on ...
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Microsoft Copilot for Legal: What Will Be the Fallout?
Microsoft has fully launched itself into the legal vertical with Copilot for Legal, an AI-powered venture with over 20 skills that overlap with plenty of ...
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Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal – Brace for Impact!
Microsoft – the software company the world’s lawyers rely upon because of Word – has gone nuclear and launched Copilot for Legal, its own multi-capability ...
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Legal Innovators New York – Speakers + Tickets Info
Legal Innovators New York, the landmark legal innovation conference on November 17 and 18 in Midtown, can now reveal some of our excellent speakers – ...
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eBrevia Launches ‘Command’ Contract Management Platform
Inhouse-focused legal AI pioneer, eBrevia, has launched ‘Command’, a contract management platform that ‘helps users understand what’s in their agreements, identify what needs attention and ...
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Legora Seeks Centrality With 30+ Integrations Ecosystem
Legora is seeking to secure its ‘centrality’ within a lawyer’s working life via the strategy of building a large-scale integration ecosystem, (see list below). In ...
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Old Problems, New Tools: Maybe You Need a Knowledge Strategy
By Patrick DiDomenico, Founder and CEO, LegalTech Connect. I have been using a phrase in conversations over the past year that I keep coming back ...
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Goodwin Partner Launches US AI-Native Law Firm Arm
Leon Johnson, most recently a partner at Goodwin in San Francisco and previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, is joining Omnilex, an AI-native law ...
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Harvey Launches Intake for Inhouse Teams
Harvey has launched Intake, its new legal front door for the inhouse world, which not only helps to funnel contracts to the right lawyers, but ...
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From AI Tools to Agentic AI – A Roadmap
By Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director, iManage. Law firms have always delegated work to those with less experience, lower billing rates, and narrower scope: partners ...
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Steno Launches Litigation Genius + Product Walk Through
Steno, the AI-enabled court reporting and litigation support company, has launched the open beta of Litigation Genius – see AL TV Product Walk Through below. ...
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Chinese Company Launches Legal-Specific LLM
Chinese company Z.ai, which created the GLM models, has launched a legal-specific LLM that has been ‘mid-trained’ and post-trained to handle a range of tasks ...
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Legatics Connects to Harvey + Anthony Seale Interview
Legatics, the transaction management platform, has joined Harvey’s Connector Library, creating a unified deal experience for lawyers. To explain how it all works and what ...
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Legora Increases Inhouse Focus with Intake
Legora has increased its focus on the inhouse world with the launch of Intake, a legal front door that operates with its agents and which ...
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Decision Systems, eDiscovery, Litigaze + More
Decision systems, such as Jev, as well as the recently launched OpenAI Decisions API, herald a new, but also curiously déjà vu, way of classifying ...
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How Legal Teams Govern AI-Driven Contracting
By Megan Bradley, Senior Legal Counsel, Docusign. In-house legal teams share some common pressure points: more contracts, more stakeholders, more urgency, all without additional headcount. ...
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Legal AI vs The Adversarial Incentive
Most major law firms use legal AI tools, yet there has been little significant change to how those firms operate. Why is that? The answer ...
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Harvey + Lexis, Google + Cooley, LI UK Tickets
We start this week’s Wrap with several chunky news stories, including a new capability jointly built by Harvey and LexisNexis – plus, the announcement that ...
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AT&T + OpenAI Partner for Legal AI Workflows
AT&T LegalEdge, the telecom giant’s new inhouse legal agency, is partnering with OpenAI to develop AI-enabled legal workflows. Jason Boehmig, GM Legal Industry at OpenAI, ...
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Legal Front Door Coheso Launches Memory + AL Interview
Coheso, the legal front door pioneer, has launched Memory, which turns resolved legal requests into institutional knowledge. See AL Interview with CEO, Ned Gannon, below. ...
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OpenAI Decisions – Cheaper Bulk Review For Lawyers
OpenAI has launched Decisions, its own decision system which will compete with the likes of Jev (see here). It could potentially reduce AI costs for ...
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Express Registration Opens for Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5
Legal Innovators UK, on November 4 and 5 in London at the Minster Building, is right around the corner and Express Registration is now open ...
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Spellbook’s Autonomous Contract Management on General Release
CLM isn’t dead. But it does have a lot of competition….as Spellbook’s Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) capability goes on general release after an initial limited ...
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Pilot5 Launches Adversarial AI for Lawyers
Although a number of legal tech companies use LLM consensus and multiple model strategies already, Pilot5 and its new adversarial Legal AI product specifically taps ...
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Ivo Launches Open-Source DeepSeek Contract AI Model
Ivo has launched a super-affordable ‘open-source model for contract work’. Branded as Sage, it was built in partnership with River AI by post-training DeepSeek V4 ...
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LawVu Launches Lens – Total Contract AI Capability
Inhouse-focused LawVu has launched Lens, an AI contract analysis tool that gives lawyers visibility across a company’s ‘entire contract portfolio, surfacing risks and obligations before ...
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Legora Launches 250+ Skills For Legal Agents
Legora has launched Skills, a way to get much more out of the agents that work within their platform. They’ve also added a library of ...
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